Drama

Question 1

a type of religious drama in the Middle Ages based on stories about saints or martyrs

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Miracle play

Question 2

Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults.

Answer 2

Morality Play

Question 3

a play concerned with the last week in the life of Christ

Answer 3

Passion Play

Question 4

a drama that represents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to i

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problem play

Question 5

lacks dramatic reality in its presentation of middle-class emotions and tenderness

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sentimental comedy

Question 6

what we find in dictionaries: literal meanings of words

Answer 6

Denotations

Question 7

the associated meanings a word may have beyond its literal or denotative meaning

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Connotations

Question 8

A witty and risque satire of upper-class etiquette and beliefs

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comedy of manners

Question 9

A play lacking dramatic reality in its presentation of middle class emotions and tenderness

Answer 9

Sentimental comedy

Question 10

a play the addresses a social problem or issue

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problem play

Question 11

a poem of lament or mourning

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Elegy

Question 12

narrative poems in short stanzas that were often sung

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ballads

Question 13

a revival of the style and attitude of ancient Greece.

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Neoclassicism

Question 14

a mock epic imitates an epic in structure and features a mundane event that is made to appear ridiculous through the use of elevated, lofty language.

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mock epic

Question 15

Literature of the Romantic age emphasized emotions and creativity

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Romanticism

Question 16

A character that is defiant, flawed, and brooding; resembling the poet, Lord Byron

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Byronic hero

Question 17

believed that the ideal spiritual state goes beyond ordinary experience

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Transcendentalism

Question 18

unmetered lines of no particular length modeled on speech patterns

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free verse

Question 19

use more than one word to name a person, place, thing, or abstraction. tree house, bookcase, street lamp, football

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Compound Nouns

Question 20

name a physical object. piano, dime, picture frame, candlestick

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Concrete Nouns

Question 21

name a concept or idea freedom, acceptance, happiness

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Abstract Nouns

Question 22

name a group of things or people. herd, gaggle, team, bouquet, audience, bunch

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Collective Nouns

Question 23

name a specific person, place, thing, or abstraction. Queen Victoria, Fiji, the Hope Diamond, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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Proper Nouns

Question 24

indicates who or what is doing the action. It’s often placed at the beginning of a sentence before the verb. A giant coast redwood can grow to heights exceeding 350 feet.

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subject

Question 25

identifies to whom or to what the action was done. Direct objects are usually placed after the verb in a sentence He climbed the redwood quietly, listening to the creaks of the old tree.

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direct object

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answers the question “For what did the action occur?” or “For whom did the action occur?” She gave all the love she had to the venerable redwood.

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indirect object

Question 27

A word that defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun or word to another element in the sentence Ex: in, over, because, after

Answer 27

preposition.

Question 28

provides more information about a noun.

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appositive

Question 29

Part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject

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Subject complement

Question 30

links the subject or subject complement; unlike action verbs, linking verbs don’t describe the subject doing anything; provides more descriptive information about the subject

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linking verb

Question 31

part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject

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predicate noun

Question 32

word a pronoun stands in for

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antecedent

Question 33

defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word or element in the sentences

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prepositions

Question 34

contains a verb and related objects in a sentence

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Predicate